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Message no. 1
From: The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU>
Subject: WOW
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 11:14:26 -0500
Gee, I would've replied to send my condolences to Rob and offer him my
sincerest wishes for the continued good function of his eyes. But with
1299 messages, I figured that I might as well make it public, rather than
aggravate an already exacebated situation privately. :)

J Roberson
Message no. 2
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject: Wow
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 07:18:14 -0700
243 messages in 24 hours! That's gotta be a record.

-David

/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\ dbuehrer@****.org /^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\
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~~~http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1068/homepage.htm~~~~
Message no. 3
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Wow
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:11:31 -0800
On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, David Buehrer wrote:

> 243 messages in 24 hours! That's gotta be a record.
>
> -David
>

Maybe THAT'S why my subscirption got dumped...Mix new lower storage
allocation at university with a record high in SR mail...bounce city?

~Tim-who-got-real-suspicious-when-he-didn't-get-any-SR-mail-for-the-last-
day-or-so.
Message no. 4
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Wow
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 17:16:02 -0500
At 01:11 PM 1/10/97 -0800, you wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, David Buehrer wrote:
>
>> 243 messages in 24 hours! That's gotta be a record.
>>
>> -David
>>
Actually, I think the record (at least while I've been around) was 306, and
that was in early november, right after we switched over from Majordomo to
Listserv... And Mark accidentily had the server set to recieve only 50
mails per day... Can you say List Crash?? i knew you could... It was
down for three days...

And ya know, I don't even know what we were talking about at the time...

Bull
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Message no. 5
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Wow
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:07:58 +0100
Bull said on 17:16/10 Jan 97...

> Actually, I think the record (at least while I've been around) was 306, and
> that was in early november, right after we switched over from Majordomo to
> Listserv... And Mark accidentily had the server set to recieve only 50
> mails per day... Can you say List Crash?? i knew you could... It was
> down for three days...

AFAIK, the highest number of messages was something like 480 in a day,
when that one guy's account bounced them back to the list... Naturally,
there was nothing useful in them, and they got longer all the time :(

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Message no. 6
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Wow
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:24:21 +0000
|
|On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, David Buehrer wrote:
|
|> 243 messages in 24 hours! That's gotta be a record.
|>
|> -David
|>
|
|Maybe THAT'S why my subscirption got dumped...Mix new lower storage
|allocation at university with a record high in SR mail...bounce city?

What kind of mailbox size have you got?
And what's your disk quota?

If you have access to filters (using elm, you do) you can set them to save
things from your mailbox to your disk quota......

This tidies things up quite a lot....

(If only I'd known that last summer..... AAAAAARGH!)

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|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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Message no. 7
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Wow
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 13:12:37 +0000
|
|Bull said on 17:16/10 Jan 97...
|
|> Actually, I think the record (at least while I've been around) was 306, and
|> that was in early november, right after we switched over from Majordomo to
|> Listserv... And Mark accidentily had the server set to recieve only 50
|> mails per day... Can you say List Crash?? i knew you could... It was
|> down for three days...
|
|AFAIK, the highest number of messages was something like 480 in a day,
|when that one guy's account bounced them back to the list... Naturally,
|there was nothing useful in them, and they got longer all the time :(

Ahhh yes... The deaded cascade....

The first time I tried making use of filters in ELM, and got toakky the
wrong idea.......
I think that lasted a couple of DAYS, and it happened more than once....

I don't think we had one of them since we got rid of Listproc, have we?
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|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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Message no. 8
From: Fro <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: Wow
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 10:07:44 -0700
At 12:07 1/11/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Bull said on 17:16/10 Jan 97...
>
>> Actually, I think the record (at least while I've been around) was 306, and
>> that was in early november, right after we switched over from Majordomo to
>> Listserv... And Mark accidentily had the server set to recieve only 50
>> mails per day... Can you say List Crash?? i knew you could... It was
>> down for three days...
>
>AFAIK, the highest number of messages was something like 480 in a day,
>when that one guy's account bounced them back to the list... Naturally,
>there was nothing useful in them, and they got longer all the time :(

One Sunday, when Mark was safely at home probably watching football and
eating cheesies, the list exploded..we had over 5000 messages that day.
Yes, three zero's. It was bouncing of some guys mail account and was
getting worse every few minutes..I had to stay online and keep retrieving
and deleting my mail, because alack, at the time my hard drive was so full
more than a few hundered mails would have filled it. I forget exactly why
it happened.. So it wasn't exactly mail, just 1 mail over and over and over.

-Fro
Who remembers the moment of seeing 'You have 2021 mails to download' very well.
Message no. 9
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Wow
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 17:19:39 +0000
|One Sunday, when Mark was safely at home probably watching football and
|eating cheesies, the list exploded..we had over 5000 messages that day.
|Yes, three zero's. It was bouncing of some guys mail account and was
|getting worse every few minutes..I had to stay online and keep retrieving
|and deleting my mail, because alack, at the time my hard drive was so full
|more than a few hundered mails would have filled it. I forget exactly why
|it happened.. So it wasn't exactly mail, just 1 mail over and over and over.

Basically, what happened was, someone lost their mailbox, and their ISP had
a non-standard "your mail was undeliverable" subject line in the message.
(Which got past the listproc filters.....)

So, the list sends a mail. It bounces off the ISP back to the list.

The list then redistributes this to all list members, including Mr Bouncy,
who, of course, bounces it...

Every message that made it to the list added another boulder to the
avalanche......

Talk about exponential progression.......

|Who remembers the moment of seeing 'You have 2021 mails to download' very well.

I remember finding a lot, and spending the rest of the day deleting them as
they came up.... I didn't count them though, so I hadn't realised it was
5000+ though....
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|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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Message no. 10
From: 'Spaceman' WD Lee <spaced@*.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Re: Wow
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:54:53 -0800
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Spike wrote:
#
# If you have access to filters (using elm, you do) you can set them to save
# things from your mailbox to your disk quota......
#
# This tidies things up quite a lot....
#
# (If only I'd known that last summer..... AAAAAARGH!)

procmail (which works with PINE) works very well. I don't think I
could remain on the list without it.....

The Spaceman |You are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
spaced@*.washington.edu |That is enough.
Check out the Bill Page! | -The Player
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~spaced/bill.html
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Message no. 11
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Wow
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:05:09 +0100
Spike said on 13:12/11 Jan 97...

> The first time I tried making use of filters in ELM, and got toakky the
> wrong idea.......
> I think that lasted a couple of DAYS, and it happened more than once....

About two days, wasn't it? I know it took me about half an hour to
download my mail that first day, with my 28K8... I was not pleased :/

> I don't think we had one of them since we got rid of Listproc, have we?

I think it happened only once, before Mark could unsubscribe the offender.

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